Samuel French

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Textual Production Charlotte Riddell
The play was printed by Samuel French as George Geith; or, Romance of a City Life, A Drama in four acts and a tableau, 1880. Reeve and his leading lady, Ada Lester , toured...
Textual Production George Paston
Samuel French published GP 's Stars: A Comedy, a one-act play in which a husband-and-wife acting duo battle over their reviews.
Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press, 1973.
875
Textual Production George Paston
Annie Horniman gave this play two successful revivals in Manchester: at the Midland Hotel Theatre in October 1907, and at the Gaiety Theatre in 1908, where its proceeds guaranteed the season's financial success.
Kaplan, Joel H., and Sheila Stowell. Theatre and Fashion: Oscar Wilde to the Suffragettes. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
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Textual Production Fay Weldon
FW 's Flood Warning: A Play (for two men and three women) was published by Samuel French .
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Textual Production George Paston
The production was a success, running for 167 performances. The play was published the same year by Samuel French .
Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press, 1973.
875
Wearing, J. P. The London Stage 1910-1919. Scarecrow Press, 1982.
10.86
Textual Production Fay Weldon
This play was published in October 1980 by Samuel French .
British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1874–1987.
1982
Weldon, Fay. Action Replay. Samuel French, 1980.
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Textual Production George Paston
It was revived at the same theatre on 20 March 1909, when it ran for eighty-three performances, and was published that year by Samuel French .
Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press, 1973.
875
Wearing, J. P. The London Stage 1900-1909. Scarecrow Press, 1981, 2 vols.
9.73
Textual Production George Paston
This popular play saw two West End revivals the following year. First it had thirty-nine performances at His Majesty's Theatre alongside Bernard Shaw 's The Admirable Bashville, and this was followed by ninety-eight performances...
Textual Production George Paston
The production transferred to Wyndham's in February to complete its run of 135 performances. It was published the same year by Samuel French .
Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press, 1973.
875
Wearing, J. P. The London Stage 1910-1919. Scarecrow Press, 1982.
10.7
Textual Production Lesley Storm
Samuel French published the play the following year.
Textual Production George Paston
The play was performed alongside Cicely Hamilton 's Pageant of Great Women as part of a fundraising event organised by Inez Bensusan on behalf of the Actresses' Franchise League and the Women Writers' Suffrage League
Textual Production George Paston
It was published by Samuel French in 1919.
Textual Production Pam Gems
Eighteen months later the production transferred to London's Comedy Theatre . Samuel French published the text in 1987.
Textual Production Dodie Smith
DS once again had trouble placing her next plays, That Which Hath Been, set in a monastery, and Amateur Means Lover, set in a Camden Town rooming house. The latter was eventually performed...
Textual Production Harriett Jay
This did even better than most of their joint plays, clocking up their longest consecutive run (256 performances).
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
By early 1897 HJ transformed it into a novel (her final work of fiction) under the same...

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Texts

Sowerby, Githa. Before Breakfast. Samuel French, 1913.
Storm, Lesley. Black Chiffon. Samuel French, 1951.
Storm, Lesley. Look, No Hands!. Samuel French, 1972.
Storm, Lesley. The Day’s Mischief. Samuel French, 1952.
Storm, Lesley. The Long Echo. Samuel French, 1957.
Storm, Lesley. The Paper Hat. Samuel French, 1966.
Storm, Lesley. Tony Draws a Horse. Samuel French, 1939.
Weldon, Fay. Action Replay. Samuel French, 1980.
Weldon, Fay. I Love My Love. Samuel French, 1984.
Weldon, Fay. Words of Advice [play]. Samuel French, 1974.
White, Antonia. Three in a Room. Samuel French, 1947.